Forgotten Book: BACKHAND, Liza Cody

This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books comes from mid 1994 in my records.

This was #6 in Cody's Anna Lee mysteries.
Anna Lee
1. Dupe (1980)
2. Bad Company (1982)
3. Stalker (1984)
4. Head Case (1985)
5. Under Contract (1986)
6. Backhand (1991)

She followed them with  a new character
Eva Wylie
1. Bucket Nut (1992)
2. Monkey Wrench (1994)
3. Musclebound (1997)

and then a couple of stand alone novels
Rift (1988)
Gimme More (2000)

BACKHAND was an Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1993)

Blurb
When her boss at Brierly Security assigns her a case--involving pilfered designer sweaters--that will take her to the States, Lee soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing teenage daughter involved with a pedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband? The Florida Keys and a handsome U.S. operative give Anna her first blissful taste of the sunny, fog-free New World even as she handily attempts to answer these questions and dodge the bullets that seem to her so quintessentially American. 

Liza Cody won

• 1980 John Creasey Memorial Award for Dupe
• 1992 Silver Dagger for Bucket Nut
• 1992 Anthony Award for short fiction for Lucky Dip

 Cody appears to have continued to write mainly short stories since 2000, although GIMME MORE was re-released in paperback in 2009. Her website. 
Wikipedia article.